University at Buffalo researchers creating app to track COVID-19

WGRZ, WKBW, Spectrum News and WHEC report on PocketCare+, a new app developed by UB computer scientists and engineers that will provide a technologically advanced form of contact tracing to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Originally developed to track the spread of the flu, the app was recently updated for use on COVID-19, says Chunming Qiao, project leader, SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Read the Spectrum News story here. Stories were also included on WGRZ, WKBW and WHEC.